NORTH COAST, Calif. – The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office has identified the Kelseyville man who died in a two-car collision on Highway 101 on Monday afternoon.

Luis Enrique Gonzalez Recinos, 22, died in the wreck, according to Capt. Greg Van Patten.

Just after 4 p.m. Monday, Gonzalez Recinos was driving a 2013 Mercedes northbound on Highway 101 near mile post marker 7.46 at approximately 65 miles per hour when the car began to skid out of control, according to the report from the California Highway Patrol’s Ukiah Area office.

The Mercedes spun counterclockwise and into the path of a 2001 Toyota driven by 21-year-old Redwood Valley resident James Wakefield Jr., who the CHP said was traveling southbound.

The Toyota’s front end hit the side of the Mercedes, the CHP said.

The CHP said Gonzalez Recinos died at the scene, while Wakefield was transported to a nearby hospital.

The crash remains under investigation.

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